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...commercial films of any kind are shown, no drama, slush or comedy. Instead the peasant whose plow is wood gapes at steel tractors and harvesting machines, sees for the first time whirring factory wheels and great steamers breasting seas beyond his ken. Peasant women are shown "model homes," see babies washed as babies should be washed, even in one film reserved for married women, watch babies come as babies should come...
Geography in the Vagabond's parlance suggests--well, it suggests a vagabondage to more happy hunting grounds than a Cambridge in the labors of a pre-mature spring slush. That's probably half the trouble with a vagabond's life; a little taste here and a sip there soon makes the world go round in such an interesting fashion that it is a triffe difficult to stay safely put in any particular spot...
What about this slush fund for athletes? What about the president taking the certificates of eligibility out of the registrar's office so that nobody could keep tabs on him? In Chicago the athletic committee of the Western Conference questioned two professors this way and that. After a while they closed the door and talked over Iowa's petition that the committee rescind its motion, adopted last May, barring Iowa from Big Ten athletics after Jan. 1. They decided that, since Iowa had not removed the players originally objected to, Iowa could stay...
Yesterday's snowfall, while it turned streets and sidewalks into pools of slush, did no harm to the turf in the Stadium. The H. A. A. is provided with 6000 square yards of canvas tarpaulins, with which the playing field is covered every night...
...fall has something to do with it too. The adjectives applied to autumn weather--crisp, brisk, stimulating--are always suggestive of activity. Who knows what the effect would be if the opening came during that first warm spell when spring fever is rampant? In the midst of February slush when even the boardwalks in the Yard are under water or during an ill-timed March blizzard the Vagabond may long for Palm Beach or Honolulu, but at the first touch of fall he is glad to be in New England. There has not been time for the dull courses...